25 Day 200-Hour Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Meditation Yoga Teacher Training in Rishikesh, India

Rishikesh Yog Nirvana is the school where students will get 26 days 200-hour residential Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga teacher training. The yoga ashram focuses on promoting and propagating yoga at national and international levels by developing a team of well equipped, disciplined, and dedicated yoga teachers. After completion of the course, students will be able to teach as a certified yoga teacher. Rishikesh Yog Nirvana starts with the traditional style of Ashtanga flow yoga and tells students how they can make their class more interesting by following the traditional style. Rishikesh Yog Nirvana teach how to use the yoga sequence.

Certification

After completion of the 200 hours yoga teacher training course, students are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®). This 200-hour yoga teacher training course is for those who would like to deepen their practice and knowledge, for beginners and advanced learners. This program meets the standards of Yoga Alliance.

You will expand in the world of yoga, develop spiritually, physically, and mentally, and it will improve your professional skills and the ability to teach yoga in your specific way. Apart from teaching the technical aspects of class teaching, very interactive and vibrant discussions on various aspects of yogic lifestyle and ethics of yoga teacher will be held. There will be sessions of talk and interactive discussions on different aspects of class teaching and presentation.

Why choose Rishikesh Yog Nirvana

Rishikesh Yog Nirvana is committed to producing teachers who are ready to step straight into a commercial teaching role at the end of their training

• Safety is the main thing they consider to yoga’s teaching philosophy
• Technique and alignment are strongly emphasized throughout the course
• They believe in good practical knowledge

They always take only 15 members in a group so that teachers can focus on each student easily

Their school believes in transforming a yoga beginner to a professional yoga instructor

Their school offers an all-encompassing preparing program that investigates yoga as a way of life and profound practice, not similarly as an activity

They believe that yoga is for people of all shapes, sizes, and experience levels. You don’t have to be young. You just have to be eager to learn to do yoga

They are part of an internationally recognized school of yoga

They provide an intensive yoga teacher training course in a fun, relaxing environment for you to learn

Daily schedule

• 22:00 Lights off
• 200-hour yoga teacher training course syllabus
• Ashtanga yoga class syllabus
• Surya Namaskar A
• Surya Namaskar B
• Full primary series: padangusthasana

Padahasthasana

• Utthita Trikonasana
• Parivrtta Trikonasana
• Utthita Parsvakonasana
• Parivrtta Parsvakonasana
• Prasarita Padottanasana A B C & D Parsvottanasana
• Eka Pada Padangusthasana A B C & D
• Ardha Baddha Padmottanasana Utkatasana
• Virabhadrasana A & B

Dandasana

• Paschimottanasana A B C & D Purvattanasana
• Ardha Baddha Padma Uttanasana
• Triang Mukaikapada Pashimottanasana
• Janu Sirsasana A B & C
• Marichyasana A B C & D

Navasana

Bhujapidasana

Kurmasana

• Supta Kurmasana
• Garbha Pindasana

Kukkutasana

Baddha Konasana A & B

Konasana

• Upavishta Konasana
• Supta Konasana
• Supta Padangusthasana A & B
• Ubhaya Padanghusthasana
• Urdhva Mukha Pashimottanasana
• Setu Bandhasana
• Urdhva Dhanurasana
• Salamba Sarvangasana

Halasana

Karnapidasana

Urdhva Pindasana

Matsyasana

Urdhva Padmasana

Sirsasana

• Urdhva Dandasana
• Baddha Padmasana
• Yoga mudra

Uplutih

Savasana

• Vinyasa Flow (Dynamic Flow of postures synchronized with breathing)
• Warm Up Postures
• Sun Salutaions
• Standing postures
• Balancing postures
• Hip opening postures
• Backward Bending postures
• Forward bending postures
• Inversion postures
• Cooling down postures

Meditation

Open Awareness Meditation

Mindfulness

Anapana Sati

Vipassana

• Humming mediatation
• Love and kindness meditation
• Gratitude Meditation
• Gazing Meditation
• Chakra Meditation
• Dynamic meditation
• Dance meditation
• Guided Energy Balancing
• Pranayama (breathing practices)
• Introduction to pranayama
• Benefits of pranayama
• General guidelines
• Clavicular, thoracic, and diaphragmatic breathing (yogic breathing)

Ujjayi

Bhastrika

Kapalbhati

Nadi - Sodhana

Bhramari

• Surya - Bhedi and Chandra - Bhedi Sheetali and Sheetkari
• Mudras (yoga gestures)
• Jnana mudra
• Chin mudra
• Yoni mudra
• Bhairava mudra
• Shambhavi mudra

Nasikagra

Khechari

Yoga cleansing (Shatkarma)

Rubber-neti

Jalaneti

• Kapalbhati- cleansing the lungs
• Recitation of sacred sound (mantra chanting)
• Om Asato Maa Sadgamaya (Mantra from Upanishad)
• Tvameva mata ca pita Tvameva (Sloka on gods)
• Om Tryambakam Yajamahe (Mantra on lord shiva)
• Om Sahana vavatu (Mantra from Upanishad)
• Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Gurudevo maheshwara (Guru stotram)
• Yogena Cittasya (Sloka on sage Patanjali)
• Hare rama, Hare Krishna (Maha mantra)
• Yoga Nidra (psychic sleep)
• Basic relaxation
• Tension relaxation
• Full body relaxation
• Yoga philosophy (yoga Darshana)
• Introduction to yoga, its philosophy and evolution
• Introduction to yoga sutras of Patanjali
• Definition of yoga
• 4 aspects of mind and its functions
• Daily schedule of a yoga student
• Principles of 5 basic element and 10 senses
• Yama, Niyama (4 days)
• Asana, pranayama, pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyan, Samadhi (2 days)
• Pancha - Vayus

Panchakoshas

• Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas (Triguna)
• Introduction to chakras and its functions
• Three doshas
• 4 padas of yoga sutras
• Lives of yogis (Inspiring stories)
• Diet and nutrition for a yogi
• Question and answers
• Anatomy and physiology
• Digestive system
• Respiratory system
• Circulatory system
• Nervous system
• Endocrine system
• Organs bodily systems

Nadis

Chakras

• Muscular system
• Skeletal system
• Muscle functions according to joint movements

Breathing

Inversions

Savasana

• Teaching methodology
• Positive and conscious communication friendship and trust
• Time management
• Qualities of a teacher
• Principles of demonstrating, observation, assisting, and correcting
• Use of voice in class
• Mental and emotional preparation for teaching
• Class preparation
• Step by step class structure planning
• Evaluation is based on
• Written test
• Asana practical test

Attendance

Performance

Behavior